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Thursday, February 11, 2010

Communication is one of the top priorities of employers and in our everyday lives. These two videos deal with differing aspects in a humorous and uplifting way. I am posting them in hopes you will view them and provide your own feedback, ideas, observations and, if you like, pass them on to others who may need them. Don't worry, they are not religious or preachy in any way.

Join filmmakers Anita and Lee Lanier for a voluteer film festival like no other, dedicated to the town they adopted as home in 2004 this week in scenic Boulder City, gateway to the Hoover Dam.

The Dam Short Film Festival begins today in BC, with movies from morning to midnight for three solid days. Over 113 short films ranging from family to animation, drama to comedy, science fiction to horror and student to seasoned professionals will screen in hour and a half segments. The Review Journals calls it a sweet short festival.

I suggest the late night for those who like harder edge, and morning and midday for those who would like solid stories or experimental statements with a less sharp edge, make believe violence or language.

Saturday at 2:45 PM local filmmaker Micheal Toole premiers his second short film, hoping it till join his first aware winning film "Reeling" as a crowd favorite. His "Spotters" is one of six films in the Amusing Associates Drama segment of the festival. Filmed in Las Vegas, Toole wrote and starred in the film, directed by Jeremy Stevermer of San Francisco.

The press and publicity over new media, decline in network television, the rise of the Internet for selective program and video viewing, cell phone videos and even Twitter are made to seem like a new challenge.

But history does repeat itself.

We can learn from and anticipate history.

For example let's go back to 1949....

"Network TV lost vast amounts of money in its early years. It was only because the existing radio networks were willing to subsidize TV that it survived—leaving CBS and NBC at the top of the heap in the '50s and '60s, just as they had been in the '30s and '40s. The old media of today have a similar chance to prosper tomorrow if they can survive the heavy financial losses that they're incurring while they develop workable new-media business models."

About Me

Actor, Casting Director, Director, Broadcaster, Writer, Singer, Artistic
Director, Dramatur, Producer, Professor, Coach, Husband, Grandfather, Marketing
Professional and life long student Art Lynch joined the staff of John Robert
Powers in 1999. Lynch is also an adjunct professor at the Community College of
Southern Nevada, the Morning Edition Weekend Host for Nevada Public Radio and
one of 67 individuals who represent 126,000 actors as a member of the Board of
Directors of the Screen Actors Guild. He is the past president of the Nevada
Branch of the Screen Actors Guild and of the Professional Audio/Visual Communications
Association. A resident of Nevada since 1984, Lynch has an MA in Communications
from UNLV and a BA in Theater, Speech and Mass Communications from the
University of Illinois, Chicago. He is currently pursuing post-graduate studies
in theater, education and the entertainment industry. Art Lynch studied and
practiced the craft of acting in Chicago and California before settling in
Nevada. With his wife Laura, Art owned and operated a successful marketing
company with national clientele. Art was personally responsible for casting and
directing over 1,000 commercials and industrials, as well as assisting on film
and television projects in many ways. His career also includes earning awards
as a wire service, magazine and broadcast journalist. He is most proud,
however, of his daughters. Ann is a PhD in neuroscience and Beth is the proud
mother of his grandchildren, Evan and Elijah.

Short Film Festival

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